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Ulead Systems, Inc.
November 2000

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  • Page 1 User Guide Ulead Systems, Inc. November 2000...
  • Page 2 First English edition for Ulead VideoStudio version 5.0, November 2000. © 1992-2001 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc.
  • Page 4 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Editing video in computers used to be dominated by professionals only. Nowadays, with the introduction to video editing software programs such as Ulead VideoStudio, editing video in your computer is easy and fun, even if you’re new to the digital video world! Tens of millions of camcorders have been sold around the world and computers have become standard fare in the home.
  • Page 5 THE BIG PICTURE Yet, what about those long existing analog camcorders, tapes, as well as other analog video sources like TV and VCR? VideoStudio doesn’t leave them behind. Through an analog video capture card, you can still capture, edit and record your video in VideoStudio.
  • Page 6 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE VideoStudio follows a step-by-step paradigm. By working on one step at a time, editing tasks remain uncomplicated throughout the entire process, from start to finish. What’s more, editing your video on the computer offers the ease of mouse clicks, drag and drop operations, as well as cut and paste operations.
  • Page 7 THE BIG PICTURE Putting a transition effect between clips is as easy as select and apply. Adding Title with customized text titles or even video clips. And with a few more clicks, you can animate your titles to scroll or fade. Transition effect and title Ulead VideoStudio breaks your movie up into separate tracks, which gives you broad...
  • Page 8 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Find out the latest features and enhancements in VideoStudio and take advantage of them right away! • Reusable template from a video file - When you’re opening a new project, you can directly take the settings from an existing video file such as an AVI or an MPEG file. This avoids the hassles about getting the right settings, and helps to maintain the same quality of the movies you make.
  • Page 9 WHAT’S NEW? • Convenient right-click menu - Provides quick access to commands such as copy, paste, delete and properties when you right-click a video clip, title, or audio track. The right- clicking commands are available in both Storyboard and Timeline modes, as well as the libraries.
  • Page 10 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE With the advent of Digital Video (DV), it has never been easier to capture, edit, and record video on your PC. Follow the installation instructions of your IEEE 1394 (also known as FireWire or i.LINK) interface card, and consult your camcorder’s manual for the proper hardware installation procedures.

  • Page 11: Windows Millennium Edition (Me)

    HARDWARE CHECKUP BEFORE USING VIDEOSTUDIO A device list on the Device Manager in the Systems Properties dialog box, Windows 98 Settings tab after clicking the Properties button Second Edition when a hard drive is selected. Access this from Control Panel: System - Device Manager. Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Windows Me fully supports the IEEE 1394 card with the following devices detected: •...
  • Page 12 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Installing Ulead VideoStudio: 1 Place the Ulead VideoStudio CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2 When the Setup screen appears, follow the instructions to install Ulead VideoStudio onto your computer. Note: If the Setup screen doesn’t appear after loading the CD, then you can manually start it by double-clicking the My Computer icon on your desktop, then double-clicking the icon for...
  • Page 13 INSTALLATION AND DV CONFIGURATION Setting up Ulead VideoStudio for DV: 1 Connect your camcorder to your IEEE 1394 capture card. 2 Insert your video tape into the camcorder and turn it on. Make sure it is in the playback mode (usually named VTR or VCR).
  • Page 14 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Ulead VideoStudio interface has been designed to make the sometimes complicated task of editing movies on your PC intuitive and enjoyable. The illustration on this page shows an overview of the entire program, while the next few pages detail more specific features. Note especially the Options panel, which is highly context sensitive (meaning that it changes depending on the program’s mode) and contains a ton of information.
  • Page 15 GETTING AROUND VIDEOSTUDIO ToolTips While moving the mouse over a button or object, you can see a balloon that pops up with the Example of ToolTips name of the item. Selected range These color bars represent the trimmed or Zoom controls selected part of a clip or project.
  • Page 16 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Global commands button This button pops up a menu that contains Clip navigation buttons many useful tools such as online Help and preferences. You can also setup device These can be used to move around a control and capture plug-in from here.
  • Page 17 GETTING AROUND VIDEOSTUDIO Next Moves to the point right after the present one of a project, clip, or selected area. Previous Moves to the ending point of Moves to the preceding point a project, clip, or selected of a project, clip, or selected area.
  • Page 18 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Library is a storage depot for everything you need to create a movie: video clips, video filters, audio clips, still images, transition effects, music files, titles and color clips. These are collectively known as media clips. You can think of the Library as a general manager for all of the pieces of your project.
  • Page 19 GETTING AROUND VIDEOSTUDIO You can also right-click any clip in the Library to open the quick menu for viewing clip properties as well as copy, paste, or delete. While holding the Ctrl or the Shift key, you can also click various clips for multiple file selection. The Library Manager organizes your custom Library folders.
  • Page 20 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Ulead VideoStudio itself is similarly laid out in a step-by-step format, following the items in the menu bar at the top of the program, from left to right. Click a step item on the menu bar to move directly between steps.
  • Page 21 STEPS TO CREATE YOUR MOVIE Title No movie would be complete without opening and closing titles. Not only can you use text in any Windows True Type font, color and size, but you can add video or image clips. This gives you the power to animate them just like the pros.

  • Page 22: Creating A New Project

    ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Start step is where you create a new project file (*.VSP), or open an existing project. A project file is a small file used by Ulead VideoStudio to store all of the information about your movie such as clips used, trimming information, duration of movie, size of frames, and type of movie to make.
  • Page 23 START Templates save many complicated settings for capturing video and for creating your movie in the Finish step. They are an extremely important part of your project and should not be overlooked. More information about template options can be found starting page 61. Creating a new template: 1 Click the Global commands button.
  • Page 24 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The process of recording video to your computer is called capturing. When everything is ready to go, the video feed from your source device should be visible in the Preview window. If your card supports a television monitor, you should also be able to watch your video there. Capturing video is one of the hardest things you will ever ask of your computer.

  • Page 25: Capturing Dv Video

    CAPTURE Capturing video (analog capture card with audio / video jacks or S-video): 1 Hook up your video source device to your capture card. On some cards, you also have to connect the audio cables to your sound card. 2 Use your device’s controls to move around and find what you want to capture.
  • Page 26 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Tip: When you connect a new video device (such as a DV camcorder) that uses Microsoft DirectShow driver to your computer, VideoStudio detects it automatically with a confirmation dialog box asking you if you want to use the newly detected device. Just click OK to accept the change, without the need to restart VideoStudio.
  • Page 27 CAPTURE This divides a captured video file (DV formatted AVI only) into several video clips based on the recording date and time change between video sessions. A video session is a period of video which is filmed continuously. The feature is very useful when you have lots of video sessions recorded on the same DV tape at different times and you want to separate them into different clips.
  • Page 28 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Overburdened by a lot of stuff to capture from your DV tape? You can get peace of mind through VideoStudio’s Batch capture. This new feature captures all the video clips you want in just one click and saves your time considerably. To do so, simply keep watching the video. At any time, press the F3 key as the Mark in point and then the F4 key as Mark out.
  • Page 29 CAPTURE Using Batch capture: 1 Turn on your camcorder and set it to Play (or VTR / VCR) mode. See your camcorder’s manual for specific instructions. 2 Run Ulead VideoStudio. Then, open a project and go to the Capture step. 3 On the Options panel, click the right- arrow button (or the middle button and select Batch Capture).
  • Page 30 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE A storyboard is an outline for a movie. It contains a chronological order of the events that occur in your story. The bottom half of the Ulead VideoStudio interface is simply an electronic storyboard. Click the Switch mode button to change between the two display modes.
  • Page 31 STORYBOARD You can drag and drop clips to arrange them, and transition effects can be inserted between clips. Selected clips can be trimmed in the preview window. See page 35 for more information on trimming. When Ulead VideoStudio is in the Timeline mode, clips are placed on the workspace as short sequences.
  • Page 32 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Ulead VideoStudio offers different controls on the Options panel depending on the step or track you are working on. This way the workspace is kept simple and uncluttered. Just remember that if you can’t find a control that you are sure you have seen before, try switching to the type of editing you want to do first.
  • Page 33 STORYBOARD A Ulead VideoStudio project (*.VSP), cannot be played until it has been rendered, or created. Click the Play project button to begin the process of rendering your project for previewing. Clip navigation buttons, with the Play project button circled Rendering is easy, but it can take some time.
  • Page 34 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The best part of editing your movie on your computer is the ease with which you can snip and trim with frame by frame accuracy. Trimming a clip with the Trim bar: 1 Select a clip from the Timeline or the Library.
  • Page 35 STORYBOARD The key to making highly accurate cuts and edits is controlling the ruler scale in the Timeline. When each unit represents one second, you can get pretty close in estimating your edits. Zoom buttons Trim handles Scroll bar Trimming a video clip that has been inserted onto the Timeline Trimming a clip from the Timeline: 1 Select a clip by clicking it on the Timeline.
  • Page 36 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Video duration Trimming a clip with the Options panel: Displays and sets the length of time of the clip. 1 Select a clip on the Timeline or in the Library. 2 Click the time in the Video duration Arrow buttons box.
  • Page 37 STORYBOARD The method of trimming illustrated here allows you to use your original video file as the source for a number of different clips in the Library. This type of editing does not affect the source file anyway. This clip is a trimmed version of the When the original clip is original video file saved on the hard reinserted into the Library, the...
  • Page 38 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE While Ulead VideoStudio by definition is primarily used to put together motion pictures, you shouldn’t underestimate the value of still pictures in your video productions. You can use images or pictures from any source, and even use individual frames from a video file. Inserting an image clip: 1 Switch to the Image Library by clicking the list and selecting Image.

  • Page 39: Capturing Still Images

    STORYBOARD Though capturing still images is available in the Capture step (see page 27), you might want to do it in the Storyboard step. This is because you can, in the Storyboard step, move to a specific frame precisely. It also avoids possible undesired vibrating effects as the video keeps running when still images are captured in the Capture step.
  • Page 40 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Titles set against solid backgrounds are often easier to see than if set against an image, especially a moving one. Once a color clip has been inserted into the Library, you can drag it to the Timeline to put it into your movie project.
  • Page 41 STORYBOARD Shift up / down video filter buttons Example of a dialog box after clicking the Advanced options button Add to timeline button Advanced options button Notes: • VideoStudio allows you to apply a maximum of five filters to a single video clip. •...

  • Page 42: Adding A Transition

    ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Transition effects give your home movies a truly professional touch. Fortunately, they are also the easiest part of Ulead VideoStudio. For your first few videos, feel free to go a little crazy and try out every transition in the Library. Once you’ve gotten used to using transition, you can express your artistic side by modifying the preset transitions to your own liking.
  • Page 43 EFFECTS Your clips appear adjacent to each other on the Storyboard. You’ll recall that the Storyboard has two different modes, Storyboard and Timeline, but transitions work the same way in both modes. The illustrations on the previous page shows VideoStudio in Storyboard mode. The mode can be switched by clicking the Switch mode button.
  • Page 44 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE While a picture may be worth a thousand words, there is no doubt that clarifying titles or credits like text here and there throughout your movie adds to its comprehensibility. And what movie would be complete without opening and closing credits? If you can type, even with just two fingers, you can create professional titles in minutes.
  • Page 45 TITLE VideoStudio improves the Options panel with new features like border, transparency and shadow. Simply use these settings to design the look of the current selected title. Note that available options might be different, depending on the title preset you choose. Option page 1: General Depending on the option you choose, it can apply to the whole text title, or part of it.
  • Page 46 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Option page 3: Shadow Each option here applies to the whole text title. Shadow styles Shadow color Determines the shadow type. Available detailed settings vary Sets the shadow color. depending on the shadow style you choose. Intensity Sets the extent of the Transparency...

  • Page 47: Preview Window

    TITLE Animating a text title: 1 Select a text title on the Timeline or create a new one. Motion style 2 On the first page of the Options panel, button click the yellow Motion style button. 3 Select a motion style from one of the preset choices.
  • Page 48 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To create a long list of credits in a production, it is necessary to insert a series of title clips into the Timeline. Creating extended credits: 1 Start by creating one clip with multiple lines of text. 2 Drag a copy of the Title clip from the Timeline to the Library.
  • Page 49 TITLE Also, VideoStudio adds a new versatile moving path option that animates a video or image title in a way of your choice. The way to use the option is the same as the one for text titles. Below is the introduction to all the options (including moving path) that apply to both video and image titles.
  • Page 50 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The importance of music in a video production cannot be overstated, and a running narration can be just as critical. Ulead VideoStudio has the tools to make sure your audio is top notch. Like the other parts of VideoStudio, the audio tracks are activated by clicking on their respective Step on the menu at the top of the program interface, by clicking on the icons to the left of the track, or by double-clicking on the track itself.
  • Page 51 VOICE & MUSIC Explaining exactly what is going on in your movie can really help your viewers understand and enjoy it better. This technique is often used in television documentaries and news stories. Narrating a movie: 1 Use the Preview bar to move to the section of the video you want to narrate.
  • Page 52 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The mood of your movie is determined as much by your video as it is by the background music you use. Whether you choose Classical, Country, or Chinese folk music, the decision is entirely up to you. The source of this music can be any CD in your collection. To use the audio from a CD in your movie, you first have to record the music you want with your computer.
  • Page 53 VOICE & MUSIC You can drag and drop audio clips to move them or add them to the Library. From the Timeline, a selected audio clip has two yellow handles that can be used for trimming. Again, just grab a handle and drag it to shorten a Selected WAV file with Trim handles clip, either from the beginning or end.
  • Page 54 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE VideoStudio has two explicit sound tracks, one for voice and one for music. If you captured your video with sound, then in reality, you also have a third sound track that is included with the video file. This really gives you a lot of creative freedom. Vacation shots, scenery and nature videos, and movies of parties all lend themselves very well to music video style productions.
  • Page 55 VOICE & MUSIC Moving audio clips between tracks: 1 To move an audio clip from the Music track to the Voice track, you first need to drag the clip to the Library. 2 Delete the clip you have just copied from the Music track.

  • Page 56: Rendering A Movie

    ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Currently, there is no single standard format for video on a PC. This is not an uncommon issue in the early days of any new technology. There are dozens of choices you need to make about the format of your final movie.
  • Page 57 FINISH If you’ve gone through the process of creating a movie already, you know that rendering may take quite a while. Sometimes, it is hard to know how your project is going to work until it is actually rendered. Fortunately, Ulead VideoStudio lets you select a portion or range of your project to render as a preview video for just this reason.
  • Page 58 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE After you have created a movie that is suitable for posting to the Internet, Ulead VideoStudio can assist you with the actual task of coding the HTML document. Creating a Web page: 1 Select a video clip from the Library. If you want to use a project, make sure you have already rendered it using the Make a movie button.
  • Page 59 FINISH Multimedia greeting cards are an attractive way of sharing your video to friends and relatives. Instead of sending the video as a simple attachment in an e-mail, Ulead VideoStudio packs the movie into an executable (*.exe) file that automatically plays the video as soon as the user runs it.
  • Page 60 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Make Movie Manager lets you create, modify, or delete movie templates. With movie templates ready, making a movie is simple because all you have to do is choose a template you like without taking the risk of improper settings. Using the Make Movie Manager: 1 Click the Global commands button, and then select Make Movie Manager.
  • Page 61 FINISH Since project properties, project / make movie templates, and video save options share mostly the same settings, this section gives you an overall introduction to video file save options and suggestions. Project properties determine the video settings in your project, while make movie template and video save options save your movie in different formats at your choice.
  • Page 62 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE common to use 29.97 fps for NTSC video going back out to a VCR in North America. As with Frame rate, a larger Frame size yields a larger file size. It’s best to try to render your video with the same frame rate and frame size as when captured.
  • Page 63 FINISH your video and to create your final movie. This information can be found by clicking the Storyboard step, selecting a captured clip, and clicking the Clip properties button. Some video capture cards record “uncompressed” video, in which case you should select None as the compression type (this, however, will create a very large file).
  • Page 64 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Creating an MPEG-1 file: 1 Open your project and go to the Finish step. 2 Click the Make a movie icon. 3 From the Media type list, select NTSC VCD (or PAL VCD, depending on your TV standard).
  • Page 65 FINISH Creating an MPEG-2 file: 1 Open your project and go to the Finish step. 2 Click the Make a movie icon. 3 From the Media type list, select NTSC DVD (or PAL DVD, depending on your TV standard). 4 Enter a name and click Save to render your movie.
  • Page 66 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3 Go to the Finish step. 4 From the Output options list, select your DV Recording device (for example: MS DV Recording). 5 Click the Export video clip button. The DV Recording - Preview Window dialog box opens. Click Next. 6 In the DV Recording - Record Window dialog box, click the DV recording button to begin the process.
  • Page 67 FINISH movie should use a small window (320x240 or preferably smaller), low frame rate (15 fps), and radio quality mono audio (8 bit). Videos with a lot of motion or action are not well suited to this medium. When you are ready to create your movie, the procedure is the same as any other method.
  • Page 68 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Analog Effect A signal that is not digital. Most VCRs, radio/ In Ulead VideoStudio, an effect is a special television broadcasting, AV in/out, S-VIDEO, and computer generated transition between two video stereos are analog. Computers are digital, dealing in clips.
  • Page 69 GLOSSARY Streaming Non Linear Editing. Conventional editing on a VCR This is a relatively new Internet technology that is necessarily linear because you must access clips allows large files to be played as they are being on a video tape in order. Computer editing can be downloaded.
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